420320 - Unaccounted airmen - 20-3-1942

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Killed on active service:
P/O (Pilot) Paul L. BANTOCK - 115089.

B - Died on active service:
AC2 Gordon F. SIDDRON - 1535546;
AC2 Ronald SMITH - 1046439, and
AC2 Edward WILLIAMS - 1467509 - 2733 Sqn (RAF Regt).

C - Not found Flight archives (or scanned page unreadable):
F/Sgt (Airgunner) Sidney A. GARDINER - 1377053;
AC2 Windsor J. REES - 653459 - age 22, and
AC1 Edward C. SHERRIN - 1392287.

D - Proposed aircraft loss:
Beaufort II - AW301 - OAPU - crashed on take-off Filton (this loss already incorrectly mentioned in my request for 19-3-1942).

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Bantock,21,registered at Salisbury, Wiltshire as is Gardiner,29. It may connect them
Siddron,20,registered at Wharfedale, W Yorkshire
Smith, 21, registered at Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset
Rees,22, registered at Neath, Glamorgan,S Wales
Sherrin,21, registered at Biggleswade.Bedfordshire
The most likely Edward Williams I found is aged 39, registered at Ploughley, Oxfordshire which is close to Benson where his RAF Regt Sqn was based,but it was in the 2nd Qtr of 1942
Regards
Dick

[davew]

Henk

a possible candidate for the deaths at Salisbury is Lysander III, R9029 of 41 OTU which crashed somewhere on Salisbury Plain on this day.

Regads

DaveW

[dennis_burke]

F/Sgt S A Gardiner is in Fligth magazine May 14th 1942.
Fit. Sgt. S. A. Gardner; note they do not have the 'i' in his surname, searched for S. A. Ga

If you go back to March 18th, there was a casualty in Ploughley district also, William R Clark, perhaps they were connected?? But Clark was KOAS and Edwards in DOAS.

[davew]

Wellington L4265 of 15 OTU crashed at Mount Farm on this day. (18/3/42)

Chorley records the deaths of CG Wiley and CG Riedy and the injured WJD Carter. The two deaths are registered at Ploughly in the second qtr of 1942. Dick notes that Williams was also registered same place and qtr. A connection?

regards

DaveW

[Henk Welting]

Thaks friends for this helpful info.
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

Theres an AC! E 'G' Sherrin DOAS in the May 28th magazine. Scanned as A/C.l E. G. Shenin No E G on CWGC so a typo in the old Flight magazine.

Gardiner was KOAS, i never mentioned in my message last May!!

I checked the injured listing for W J D Carter and none of the other two Ploughly names appear with him.

Wiley and Reidy being Canadian, TSNGO shoud mention how many other crew were with them.

[Henk Welting]

Dennis,
Allison no info on crew. TSGNO for RIEDY: "Wellington W4265 (must be L4265, Henk) swung on take-off and collided with Hudson N7332. The Wellington became airborne, then stalled, crashed and burned at Mount Farm. Sgt WILEY was killed in the Wellington and F/Sgt RIEDY was killed in the Hudson".
As we know, Chorley has both on the Wellington and a Sgt W.J.D. CARTER injured.
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

P/O (Pilot) Paul L. BANTOCK - 115089 - The Stage, of June 4th 1942, reported the following:

ACTORS ORPHANAGE ANNUAL MEETING
Paul Bantock, who was head boy at Silverlands and one of our best scholars, joined the R.A.F. and was killed in an air accident this spring just after he had come back from his training in Canada.

F/Sgt (Airgunner) Sidney A. GARDINER - 1377053 - the Graves Registration Report Form confirms his unit as 41 O.T.U.

AC2 Ronald SMITH - 1046439 - the Western Daily news of March 25th 1942 reported the following:

AIRMAN KILLED IN ROAD CRASH
A verdict that death was due to a fracture of the skull caused through being knocked down by a motor-cycle was returned at an inquest held at Axbridge on Aircraftman Ronald Smith (21), whose home address was given as Ty-Craig, Crown Hill, Llantwit Fardre, near Pontyrpidd. Smith was killed in a motor-cycle accident near Bristol on Friday evening.

Regards

Simon

[RecklessRat]

Not listed above but in the database as 'unaccounted' for this date

610003 LAC Thomas ALLEN RAF
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...php?qnum=51764
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/fi...allen,-thomas/

Thomas Allen
'Soldier'
Died at Oribi Military Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, aged 22, of '(a) Pulmonary Tuberculosis (b) contributing: Spontaneous Pneumothorax'

From the Form of Information of a Death on FamilySearch:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...5DT?cc=2721608